Infrastructure Charter
The Government has published a Charter which sets out the priorities and key components for reform and behavioural change, to be embedded into client and supply chain practice at all levels. The Charter aims to change behaviours and working practice for infrastructure delivery to:
- provide improved transparency and certainty around the infrastructure forward programme;
- group projects into more efficient longer-term programmes with clear outcome based objectives;
- encourage innovation and allow for earlier and integrated supply chain involvement through improved competition and procurement processes;
- seek the best whole life outcome rather than seeking the lowest cost for a given specification;
- select supply chain partners on the basis of their ability to deliver innovative solutions set against transparent and affordable cost targets and long-term outcomes;
- develop appropriate client technical expertise and intelligent commissioning capability and make better use of infrastructure data to support decision making and the setting of cost targets; and
- create the environment for industry to invest in new technologies and skills improvement to deliver greater outcome-based efficiencies.
To embed these goals into departmental and regulatory planning, departments will report annually on progress against these objectives, through the Government Construction Board, the first report will be published March 2012.
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